Giuliani: I Saved More Black Lives Than Black Lives Matter

To its supporters, Black Lives Matter is a movement that is fighting racial injustice within the criminal justice system. To its detractors, it is a movement that is ginning up anti-police sentiment while ignoring larger issues in the black community.

In an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, former New York City Mayor and federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani made it very clear that he is a detractor of said movement.

Discussing the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille, in New Orleans and Minnesota and the targeted murder of five police officers in Dallas, Giuliani held nothing back.

“A black will die one percent or less at the hands of the police, and 99 percent at the hands of a civilian, most often another black,” Giuliani said.

“If you want to deal with this on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police,” he said.

Giuliani also had nothing kind to say about what he sees as the racially divisive nature of the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole.

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“When you say black lives matter, that’s inherently racist. White lives matter, Asian lives matter, Hispanic lives matter. Of course black lives matter, and they matter greatly. But when you focus in on one percent, of less than one percent, of the murder that’s going on in America, an you make it a national thing … much bigger than the black kid that’s getting killed in Chicago every 14 hours, you create a disproportion,” he said.

Appearing Monday morning on Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, Giuliani refused to take a backwards step, continuing his theme from the day before.

“I believe I saved a lot more black lives than Black Lives Matter. I don’t see what Black Lives Matter is doing for blacks other than isolating them. All it cares about is the police shooting of blacks. It doesn’t care about the 90 percent of blacks that have been killed by other blacks. That’s just a simple fact. That is a simple fact,” he said.

Conversely, Giuliani said if there was a group called White Lives Matter, he would expect them to deal with the fact that “82 percent of the whites are killed by other whites. If you want to care about white lives matter, you have to worry about whites.”

The former U.S. Attorney harkened back to his days as a prosecutor, saying all he ever cared about was finding criminals, regardless of their race.

In reference to South American drug dealers he went after in the 1980s, Giuliani explained, “When I was searching for Colombian drug dealers, I wasn’t looking for black guys. When they told me it’s one of Nicky Barnes’ crew, or it’s one of Frank James’ crew, then I started searching for black guys. That’s what proper profiling is about.”

The former NYC mayor also used his own record in office as an example of how in his mind, he not only cares about black lives, but actually did something to save them.

“When I would move police from white neighborhoods to black neighborhoods, the white neighborhoods would get angry at me. And they would say why would you move them to the black neighborhoods? I was doing that to save black children. That’s why I was doing it,” he said.

Giuliani also spoke about the violence that had been running rampant in Beford Stuyvesant when he became Mayor.

“They were slaughtering black children and black young men and we cut that by 65 percent, so don’t tell me I don’t care about black lives.”